Moodle Course Conversion: Beginner Table of Contents

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Preface
Chapter 1: Going Electric
Chapter 2: Set Up Your Courses
Chapter 3: Add Documents and Handouts
Chapter 4: Sound and Vision—Including Multimedia Content
Chapter 5: Moodle Makeover
Chapter 6: Managing Student Work
Chapter 7: Communicating Online
Chapter 8: Enhancing Your Teaching
Chapter 9: Putting It All together
Index

Preface

Chapter 1: Going Electric
- What Can Moodle Do for Me?
  - Advantages for the Teacher
  - Advantages for the Student
  - The Advantage of Open Source
- Who Is This Book For?
- What Will We Be Doing Together?
  - Moodle Course Conversion – Part 1
  - Moodle Course Conversion – Part 2
- The History of Moodle
  - Origins
  - A New Learning Pedagogy
  - Growth and Support
- Getting Logged On
  - Loggin On
    - Time for Action – Log in to Moodle
  - Telling Other Users about Yourself
    - Time for Action—Edit Your Profile
  - Changing Your Password
  - Logging Off
- Doing Your Job—Your Role
  - Who Decides Who's Teaching on a Course?
  - Capabilities
  - Contexts
  - Why Am I Mentioning All of This?
- Moodle Look-and-Feel
  - Moodle Themes
  - A Moodle Page
    - Breadcrumb Trail
    - Blocks
    - Footer
    - Icons
- Summary

Chapter 2: Set Up Your Courses
- From Curriculum to Courses: What Counts as a Moodle Course?
  - What Is a Moodle Course?
  - How Moodle Organizes Its Courses
  - Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
  - If in Doubt, Hold a Meeting
- Let's Get Started
- Create Your Course
  - Do You Need to Create Your Course Yourself?
  - What to Do if Your Course Has Been Created for You
    - Time for Action – Configuring the Backyard Ballistics Course
  - Choosing an Effective Description for the Course Summary
  - Using the Editor
  - Getting Help
    - Further Documentation
  - Getting Back to the Course Settings Screen
- Course Structure and Format
  - Weekly or Topic Format?
  - Breaking Your Course into Topics
  - Setting the Format for Your Course
    - Time for Action – Set Up the Course Format
  - Defining Each Topic/Week
    - Time for Action – Defining Each Week/Topic
  - What Have We Achieved so Far?
  - Topic Zero
  - More Settings for Topics/Weeks
- Assigning Teaching Staff
  - Time for Action – Assigning Roles

Let in the Rabble—Enrolling Students on Your Course
- Has Your Administrator Done This for You?
- Enrolling with a Key
  - Time for Action – Specify a Course Enrolment Key
- Other Enrolment Options
  - Assign Students to the Course
  - Groups and Group Enrolment
  - Free-for-All—Letting Anybody Enrol
- Allowing Guest Access

Summary

Chapter 3: Add Documents and Handouts
- Uploading Files
  - Time for Action – Uploading a File
- How Big Is Your File?
- Uploading Lots of Documents in One Go
  - Time for Action – Packing Files Together
  - Dealing with Oversize ZIP Files
  - Zipping Folders
  - Remove the ZIP File When You Have Unpacked It

Organizing Your Files
- Time for Action – Creating a "Handouts" Folder
- Time for Action – Putting Files where We Want Them

Removing Files
- Time for Action – Removing Files

Dishing Out the Work
- Time for Action – Giving Students Individual Files

Don't Make This Mistake: Moving Files After You have put a Link to Them on Your Course Front Page
- Access to Directories
  - Time for Action – Displaying a Directory

Documents and Handouts: Which Format?
- Microsoft Word
- Images
  - Time for Action – Uploading an Image and Including It in a Summary
- PowerPoint
  - Uploading As-Is
  - Preparing Your PowerPoint for Moodle
  - Time for Action – Compressing Images
  - Converting into Documents
  - Converting into Images
  - Converting into Web Pages
- Become a Cut and Paste Fiend
  - Time for Action – Creating a Web Page

Turn Large Documents into a Wiki
- Time for Action – Adding a Hidden Topic
- Time for Action – Adding a Wiki
- Time for Action – Creating a Wiki Contents Page
- Time for Action – Adding a New Wiki Page

Summary

Chapter 4: Sound and Vision—Including Multimedia Content
- Linking to Other Websites
  - Adding a Link to the Course Main Page
    - Time for Action – Links to Websites on the Course Main Page
  - Turning Text into a Web Link
    - Time for Action – Putting Links in a Moodle Web Page
  - Manually Adding Links to Moodle Web Pages
    - Time for Action – Make a Link Out of Text
- Importing Videos
  - Time for Action – Include a Video on Your Course Front Page
- Make Moodle Play Your Videos
  - Time for Action – Embed a Video into a Moodle Web Page
- Choosing a Video File Format
- Moodle Video Troubleshooting
- Embed a Video from a Video Sharing Website
  - Include Videos from YouTube
  - Time for Action – Embed the YouTube Player into Your Course
  - Extract a Video from YouTube
  - Include Videos from TeacherTube
  - Time for Action – Embed a Video from TeacherTube

Playing Audio
- Choosing an Audio File Format
- Let Moodle Handle Your Sounds
  - Time for Action – Embed an Audio Clip
  - Troubleshooting Audio – What if Moodle Doesn't Embed a Player?
- Embed Audio from an Audio Sharing Website

Do More with Embedding
- Picture Shows Using Slide.com
  - Time for Action – Add a Slide Show
  - Ask the Admin
- What Happens If You Don't Enable Multimedia Plugins?

Summary

Chapter 5: Moodle Makeover
- Arrange Your Resources
  - Putting Your Resources in Order
    - Time for Action – Arrange Your Resources
    - Time for Action – Insert a Label
- Hypnotic HTML—Finessing to Your Web Pages and Descriptions
  - Finding Decorative Images
    - Google Image Search
    - Flickr
    - General Clipart Libraries
    - Microsoft Office Clipart Library
    - Time for Action – Grab an Image from a Word Document
    - Copyright Caution
  - HTML Editor Tips and Tricks—Smilies and Other Gimmicks
    - Smilies
    - Create Imaginary Dialog
    - Arranging Your HTML
    - Time for Action—Displaying Things Side by Side
  - Getting Animated—Add a Talking Character
  - HTML Blocks—A Bit on the Side
    - Time for Action – Add a Welcome Message
- Back Up Your Course
  - Time for Action – Back Up Your Course

Summary

Chapter 6: Managing Student Work
- Converting Projects and Assignments
  - How to Structure Converted Projects and Assignments Online
    - Adding a New Topic to a Course
    - Time for Action – Add a Topic to a Course and Hide It
  - Which Assignment Type?
    - Converting a Project to Moodle Example 1 – Using an Offline Assignment
    - Time for Action – Add an Offline Activity Assignment
    - Converting a Project to Moodle Example 2 – Using an Advanced Uploading of Files Assignment
    - Time for Action – Add an Advanced Uploading of Files Assignment
  - Introduce a Student on Your Course
  - How Assignments Look to a Student
    - Taking the Student's Point of View—Uploading a Project File
    - Time for Action – Uploading a File to an Assignment
  - Marking Assignments
    - Marking Offline Assignments
    - Time for Action – Mark an Offline Assignment
    - Handling Student Submissions
    - Time for Action – Providing Feedback on Student Submissions
    - Confirming That Our Feedback Has Been Received
    - Marking Student Submissions
    - Reverting to Draft
  - Specifying Custom Grades
    - Time for Action – Create a Custom Grade Scale
    - Time for Action – Grading Using a Custom Scale
- More Uses for Moodle Assignments
- Grading Students on Core Competencies
  - Configuring Outcomes
    - Time for Action – Create a Custom Grade Item in the Grader Report
    - Time for Action – Grading Core Competencies in Assignments
    - Ask the Admin
- Summary

Chapter 7: Communicating Online
- Communicating in Moodle
- Forums
  - Add a Forum to Your Course
    - Time for Action – Add a Forum to Your Course
  - Subscribing to Forums
    - Time for Action – Subscribing Users to a Forum
  - Moderating a Forum
    - Getting a Discussion Started
    - Time for Action – Start a Discussion
    - Keeping Discussions Focused—Managing the Discussion
    - Coping with the Rude and Unruly
    - Time for Action – Rate Forum Posts
    - Ensure Discussions Are Easy to Follow
    - Time for Action – Split a Discussion
  - What Kind of Forum?
  - Forum Tips and Tricks
    - The News Forum is not a Forum...
- Online Chat Rooms
  - Adding a Chat Room to Your Course
    - Time for Action – Add a Moodle Chat
  - Being Understood – Using Emoticons
  - Viewing Past Chat Sessions
  - Letting Students Know When You Are Available
    - Time for Action – Telling Students When We're Around
    - Adding a Calendar to Your Course Front Page
    - Time for Action – Add a Calendar to the Course Front Page
  - Chat Room Tips and Tricks
- Moodle Messaging
  - Send a Welcome Message
    - Time for Action – Send Your Students a Message
  - Are You Getting the Message?
    - Time for Action – Adding and Using the Messages Block
  - Managing Your Contacts
    - Time for Action – Add a Contact
- Summary

Chapter 8: Enhancing Your Teaching
- Quiz
  - Using Moodle's Built-In Question Editors
    - Time for Action – Add a Question to the Question Bank
  - Importing Questions
    - What is "Hot Potatoes"?
    - Time for Action – Import a Hot Potatoes Quiz
  - Managing Questions
    - Time for Action – Categorizing Questions
  - Setting a Test
    - Time for Action – Add a Quiz to the Course
  - Removing the Submit Button
    - Time for Action – Disable the Submit Button
- Lesson Activity
  - How Moodle Lessons Are Structured
  - Why Include a Lesson?
  - Supporting Classroom-Based Teaching with Lessons
  - Including a Lesson in Your Course
    - Configuring a Lesson
    - Time for Action – Configuring a Lesson
    - Adding a Branch Table – a Web Page with Buttons at the Bottom
    - Time for Action – Add a Branch Table
    - Adding a Question Page
    - Time for Action – Inserting a Question Page
    - Putting It All Together – Linking Lesson Pages
    - Time for Action – Configuring Page Jumps
  - Monitoring Student Progress through a Lesson
  - Plan Your Moodle Lessons Carefully
- Wiki
  - What Are My Wiki Options?
  - What Can You Use a Wiki For?
  - Adding a Wiki
    - Time for Action – Adding a Wiki
  - Editing a Wiki Page
    - Creating a New Page
    - Viewing a Page's History
  - Uploading a Page Template
    - Time for Action – Using a Wiki Template
- Glossary Activity
  - Adding a Glossary
    - Time for Action – Include a Glossary
    - Time for Action – Adding a Glossary Entry
    - Glossary Auto-Linking
  - Glossary Block
- Choice
  - Time for Action – Add a Choice Activity

Ask the Admin
- Configuring Hot Potatoes Support
- Allowing Teachers Access to Questions Outside of Their Courses
- Configure Glossary Auto-Linking

Summary

Chapter 9: Putting It All together
- Blended Learning with Moodle
  - Why Blended Learning?
  - Structuring Your Course—Modifying the Course Settings
    - Time for Action – New Course Quick Configuration
  - Introducing Your Course
  - Using Multimedia Sharing Services
  - Arranging Activities
    - Time for Action – Convert a Crossword to Moodle
- Converting to Fully Online Courses
  - Managing Groups of Students
    - Creating Groups
    - Time for Action – Creating Student Groups
    - Adding Students to Groups
    - Time for Action – Manually Adding Students to a Group
    - Time for Action – Specify a Group Enrolment Key
    - Collaborating in Groups
    - Time for Action – Group Work in a Forum
    - Handing Out Group-Specific Work
    - Time for Action – Create Groupings
  - Checking Student Progress
    - Monitoring Student Participation
  - Using the Moodle Grade Book
    - Time for Action – Configuring the Grade Book
- Backup and Restore
  - Backing Up Your Course
    - Time for Action – Back Up Your Course
  - Restoring a Course
    - Time for Action – Restore a Course
- Summary